Beach Nourishment Update
September 23, 2014
Speaker: Bill Pitt
Areas of Nourishment:
Duck – From just north of the pier for about a mile and a half
KH – the entire town
KDH – from the KH/KDH town line south to about the Wright Memorial.
| Total cost estimates | Funds to be raised by municipalities | |||
| Duck | 13.8 million | Duck | 6.7 million | |
| KH | 17.5 million | KH | 6.2 million | |
| KDH | 9.4 million | KDH | 5.0 million | |
| Total | 40.8 million | Total | 17.9 million | |
Dare County to provide 23 million of the 40.8 million estimate.
How the towns will pay their portion:
KDH will have a town-wide rate increase of .03 – about $30 for every $100,000 of value.
A municipal service district (MSD) will be defined as all those properties on the east side of the beach road – those properties will see an increase of .3509.
Duck and KH are still unsure and do not have details at this point. The following are proposed solutions only and may not be the final plan.
Duck – may have 3 different MSD areas – Oceanfront/Semi, From Semi to 4 or 5 lots back and then everything else. Still looking at options
KH – Has the least amount of oceanfront tax base but they are thinking about the oceanfront and the entire between the highways area to be one MSD and will have the bulk of the increase. KH will have a town-wide tax increase and there may be a separate area in the northern Seascape area – not sure if that includes the commercial areas.
Stages of nourishment process:
Design
Environmental Documentation
Permitting
Pre-construction
Construction (timeline has this starting in a large window sometime in 2016).
Southern Shores will not be doing any nourishment at this time.
Information from today’s presentation will be added to the KDH website soon.
